Other What currently makes your life awesome?

Bought a pregnancy pillow, and a firm memory foam pillow from Ikea, not had a bad night's sleep since!

 

“Need” doesn’t come into it

 

Sister is coming for a visit on 23rd

We haven't been in the same country since march 2019

 

The latest "LEGO Ideas" review has ended. I will be throwing money at them for at least 2 more official sets:-


https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/649e11f4-716e-461d-a9ee-0ca32911c075


https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/5253cea1-64c9-4058-8fbe-ba84034fc5f0

 

I made some banging naan bread today. I'd read that only a tandoor does the job but the next best thing is a cast iron pan cranked up to 350°C

Dough rolled to 3mm thick, cooked in two minutes flat. Oh boy!

 

I wouldn’t say “awesome”, but did make me smile when I pulled up in the office car park this morning:



Couldn’t help myself shouting “NEEERRRRRRD!”, to no one in particular

 

On yesterday's commute, I was briefly behind a car which had a larger sticker of the same Imperial logo on one side of the numberplate, and a Mandalorian Mythosaur sticker on the other.
They could at least try to make their mind up!

 

Flipping through a few photos from Download last weekend reminded me of this delightful Father's Day moment.

Sitting a bit further back up the hill for Meshuggah just taking it easy and having a beverage, my daughter asks if we can move up to the front, to which I reply absolutely and we wander up (Meshuggah is a bit much for Mrs_Tad so she hung back). We hang out there for the rest of their set.

She then asks what's the plan for the rest of the day, we browse through the lineup and Meshuggah evidently awakening some heavier tastes she decides we should skip the first part of BFMV's set for Lorna Shore. So proud of my little girl

Absolutely the right call also as Lorna Shore were brilliant.

 

Just had an EXTREMELY productive Teams call with our site manager regarding the new facility that we will be moving to over the next couple of weeks.

I had raised some questions and suggested back before the building work had even broken ground and nothing was answered or taken into account, and over the time of construction still nothing with suggestions and the like going nowhere. So I thought I would skip the whole order of things and go straight to our site manager.

I raised questions about the branding of the new site and that looks like we might be getting a little more than just our parent company on there, which is nice. I also asked about the lightning protection for the new facility as the current system is non-compliant with the current British Standard (kinda looks bad for a company that instructs on LP installations...) and I am now going to be involved with fixing and expanding that as we add more solar panels to the roof - I should have been involved from the start on it, but that is another story...). There were a couple of other points, and all in one of the most productive meetings that involve my ideas that I have ever had.

 

One of my bessie mates has always loved the Godzilla / big battle robot genre. Might get him this as a Christmas present.

 

Sounds like some top parenting to me

I never really "got into" Meshuggah, and I can't recall ever listening to Lorna Shore at all. It's not that I think they're rubbish; I do very much like what I've heard from Meshuggah, and even if I didn't like the music it would be hard to not appreciate the skill and technical brilliance. It's just... I dunno... I've never really sought either of them out specifically. Which surprises even me, because both of them are absolutely right up my musical alley.

 

Richard Burton is back from the dead!

 

This has to be read in Burton's voice, Liam Neeson just isn't the same "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter"

We could update this of course..
"No one would have believed in the last first years of the nineteenth twenty first century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by man made intelligences greater than man's and yet hopefully as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter"

 

oh F**k. There goes even more of my wallet.

 

I was cold in the car this morning. Cold.

The office air conditioning is cold enough that one of my colleagues has just put a hoodie on.

In light of the temperatures forecast for today…



… this is proving to be a smart decision:

 

I'm the opposite...Aircon in the car has died and I'm doing a house moving run to London tomorrow.
Plenty of cold water will be on board

 

In this weather…? Nope. Sorry, rather you than me, I’m afraid

 

Aye, Mrs A has said she is staying at home, apparently there's not enough room for her...conveniently.
So, I have to video the new place thoroughly